Type II error of a one-sided proportion test
Question
Andy claims of people love a certain app; Aaron believes the true share is . Aaron polls random people and uses a one-sided large-sample z-test of against at level (critical value ). What is the probability of a type II error under Aaron's alternative, to three decimals?
Short answer
. The test rejects when . If , has standard deviation , so .
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- Maximum Likelihood Estimation: Score and Log-Likelihood
- The Hypothesis Testing Framework
- Pivotal Quantities and Exact Confidence Intervals
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